DANQUAH JEFF BOAKYE

dr. boakye is currently the finance director of akenten appiah-menkah university of skills training and entrerpeneural developmnent. he is also the founder of smat accountancy limited, london. he holds a ph.d. in accounting from bournemouth university, uk. he is a fellow member of acca and has an mba in finance from leicester university, uk. dr. boakye’s bachelor’s degree is in business administration, accounting option, obtained from the university of ghana. he completed gce ‘o’ and ‘a’ levels education at the atwimaman (now afia kobi shs) and kumasi high school, respectively.

dr. boakye also holds a postgraduate diploma in teaching and learning in higher education from the university of education winneba (uew). he is currently deputy director of finance at koforidua technical university and consultant for smat accountancy, london. he has over 17 years of professional experience in finance, accounting, taxation, and auditing in building and construction, education, pharmaceutical, charity, public sector, and audit practice.

dr. boakye has held numerous managerial positions in reputable organizations in both ghana and the uk, including ag director of finance, koforidua technical university, finance manager, millennium promise alliance inc., deputy finance manager, kingston first london, finance manager cressey oasis academy, london, finance director, daisy’s property management ltd, london. dr. boakye is a part-time lecturer on financial management and accounting software and was a visiting lecturer for some uk colleges and universities, including westminster kingsway college and london south bank university.

his main research interest is in environmental accounting, sustainability, and other areas of corporate social responsibility. dr. danquah has published 12 papers in many reputable and high-impact journals such as business strategy and environment (wiley), technological forecasting and change (elsevier), accounting education (routledge, taylor, and francis), environmental reporting in africa (emerald), journal of cleaner production (elsevier) and indian journal of corporate governance (sage.)

he is also skillful in strategic and operational financial management, management accounts and reconciliations (general ledger, control ledgers, and bank), tax accounting services, accounts preparation based on ipsas, teaching in further and higher education, and budget setting and monitoring.

his skills also cover training of non-finance professionals and reinstating accounts to reflect ifrs, review, design and implementation of internal control systems – risk management, auditing and report writing, staff management, and system improvement, and it skills – excel, powerpoint, sage, quickbooks, spss, stata, tax filer, vt transaction, payroll manager, topaz accounting, and others.